Processo de organização sindical na mineração em Carajás-PA a negociação dos direitos sociais como “moeda de troca” das relações de trabalho

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the relations and working conditions in the mining-metallurgical sector of Carajás-PA from the perspective of trade union leaders and legal operators working in the region. Based on this study, it is intended to investigate the processes of union demand and negotiation, regarding the defense, guarantee and promotion of social rights. As a theoretical reference of analysis, the research was guided by the critical dialectical method for the better apprehension of the conceptual changes of the categories, as well as guideline of successive approximation with the object in question. In the development of the work, the conceptions of the State and the ideological mechanisms that act as hegemonic force for the attenuation of the crises of the capitalist mode of production, through the subtraction of the class conflicts and control of the relations and work processes in the intention To guarantee the reproduction of bourgeois sociability. In the sequence, the particularity of this capital-labor relationship is evident in the mining-metallurgical activity in Carajás-PA, where the reflexes of productive restructuring act as regulator of a permanent context of flexibilization and precarization of labor relations that interfere directly in the organization Of workers and in the labor time imposed by the productivity rate of the economic companies subsidiaries of Transnacional Vale SA. In light of the above, based on the data collection carried out in the Collective Labor Agreements - ACT's of the mining-metallurgical workers affiliated to SIMETALParauapebas, Vale SA's sustainability report and the interviews with the research subjects, A local context of bureaucratization of labor decisions, where the State power, slow and permissive, acts in conjunction with the new configuration of the union-company relationship and thus contributes to maintaining the concentration of wealth for the business sector and flexibilization or subtraction of social rights for workers. This union / company relationship has been mediated by the instruments for measuring the goals achieved by the level of workers' productivity, which serves as a parameter for the achievement of the social policies of wage benefits and incentives defined in the trade union negotiation processes.